I have returned from the first of perhaps many interviews. It is late in the evening, and I wish to perhaps complete some yoga. But at the very least, I thought you deserved some notes on my experience.
And so, I received an email to interview early last week calling me to interview. Rather than be called towards a distant town, the invite was nearer to home. This was distinctly appreciated.
There is something called visualisation in the performance of top athletes. This is where they imagine what they control, and they imagine controlling it as well as they can. This is something I enjoyed in the days before. On the day itself, and during the interview, I couldn't help but smile.
The interview itself, needless to say, went extremely well.
Other interviews called me, too. And a plethora of jobs have been listed on the TES, too.
Amongst all this, I see that I have had to plan for next week, too. Fortunately, I managed to mark some on Saturday, and in a PPA last week. As a result, I am left with less preparation than normal. This means that my levels of stress haven't risen. That, and I have slept extraordinarily this weekend. And rightly so.
Something that needs to be realised about such interviews is that my purpose was not to impress the interviewer in order to secure the job. My purpose was to talk articulately about what I do, and why I do it, in order to see how rigorously I know my purpose. The cross-purpose (the job) was a fortuitous mix. Through this thought, though, my stress became excitement; I was the judge of the success (or not) of what it was I was saying. And while I was not wholly articulate, and certainly less so when speaking at length to others recently, I was articulate enough to talk far beyond the platitudes of careerists and travel-hoppers.
We'll see next week whether that proposition is vindicated.
A Skype interview has been arranged for later this week, also. That is a different experience, and one in which I am inexperienced.
If you are reading this, I would urge you to see your interview with a different purpose than just securing a job. In fact, I would want you to consider your teaching as having a different purpose than just that you perceive as given to you by someone else. You're reading this; you're more important than that.
